BtZ/BtI: Kubrick/Pynchon

[Mark Thibodeau]

I have to say, the thing that shocks me most about this particular
query to P-list is the fact that I'm not the one who made it.

;-)

J

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is Pynch known to have any particular relationship to 2001?
>
> The last section of the moviet is called "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite".
> It comes out five years before GR. Hard to imagine any scenario whereby
> Pynchon doesn't see this movie. Thus doesn't know his title has an overt
> relationship to the movie chapter.
>
> Reminds me: there's a David Foster Wallace story in Oblivion called "The
> Soul Is Not a Smithy," correcting a line from the end of A Portrait of the
> Artist as a Young Man in which JJ says that the soul--Dedalus's, anyway--is.
> A smithy.
>
>
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